Adam Smith encourages employers to restrict working hours to reasonable limits, for humanity and for profit.

As a last, desperate throw of the dice in the Great War, the Germans detonated an unusual kind of weapon in St Petersburg.

A nation with its own laws and a strong sense of shared cultural identity makes good economic sense.

A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.

Adam Smith warns that politicians are the last people who should lecture the public about how to run their affairs.

The colourful Foreign Secretary humbly accepted a lesson in manners from a local tradesman.